Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
ICREACH is the codename for the NSA’s Secret Google-Like Search Engine for Metadata Analysis disclosed by a new collection of documents leaked by Snowden. ICREACH is the name of a Google-like search engine designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) that provides metadata related to individuals living in US to more than two dozen US government agencies. The Intercept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
Authorities confirmed that 27 million individuals in South Korea suffered a data breach, nearly 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit. A new massive data breach hit more that 27 million people in South Korea, according to the authorities stolen data comes from the gaming industry. It isn’t the first time that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
FBI is warning businesses operating in the healthcare industry on possible cyber attacks. The FBI is alerting the healthcare industry companies on potential cyber attacks, the law enforcement are warning companies after the attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that caused the theft of millions of patient records. “The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
Experts working at US and UK Intelligence agencies on monthly base leak Tor vulnerabilities to the developers at the Tor Project. The BBC reported that the executive director of the Tor Project revealed that both US and UK intelligence agencies share bugs anonymously with Tor developers. The circumstance is quite surprising considering that both NSA and GCHQ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2014
Location services are considered a serious threat to privacy because data managed by company like Google could be used for online surveillance. Many experts consider privacy a utopia, every activity we make online is constantly tracked and in many cases principal service providers manage much more information than needed. Google company has been accused many times […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2014
Researchers demonstrated a new side channel attack which allow them to steal encryption keys by simply touching a laptop. Yesterday I published a post on an interesting research conducted by a the team of experts which demonstrated an attack exploits “a newly discovered public side channel” allowing threat actor to access the shared memory statistics of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2014
Microsoft is investigating on potentially faulty Windows security update that is causing some systems to crash with bluescreen error. Last Friday, Microsoft urged its users to uninstall the latest security updates issued by the company because they are causing the unpleasant bluescreen, also know as “Blue Screens of Death” or BSoD. Microsoft released its usual […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2014
Malware is the primary threats for enterprise virtual machines according to report a recent report issued by Symantec Symantec recently issued the “Threats to virtual environments” report to analyze principal menace for virtualized environments. The report is very actually and considers the rapid diffusion of the virtualization paradigm within enterprises. According to Forrester Research more than 70 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2014
US Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU have confirmed a data breach that could impact customers who acquired product in national stores. The Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU posted on Thursday a data breach notification related to an Incident Involving Payment Card Data Processing. Albertsons is the second largest grocery store chain in the US, meanwhile SUPERVALU is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2014
New revelation on British GCHQ confirms the existence of the HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries. In the last years the British GCHQ has conducted numerous hacking operation against systems in 27 countries, through a massive port scanning the intelligence agency was searching for vulnerability to exploit in cyber attacks. […]
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